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...approximately 30,000 eligible voters--those who have received master of arts degrees from Oxford--only 718 donned their gowns and marched to the Sheldonian Theatre to vote. Blunden defeated his American rival...
Oxford University passed over Robert T. S. Lowell Jr. '39 and appointed Edmund Blunden its professor of Poetry last Saturday. Lowell, who is a visiting professor of English here, would have been the first native-born American to occupy the chair...
Lowell, from his home in New York City, said last night that he had no "ill feelings whatever about the result." Blunden is "an excellent choice," he said...
...apparently the support of older Oxonians that gave Blunden, who is 69 years old, his victory. Many reportedly felt that the older candidate should have first crack at the job. Dr. Edid Starkie, noted lecturer in French literature and Blunden's campaign manager, said that she would be happy to support Lowell for the chair in five years...
...Undergraduate Poetry Society, which was disappointed by the decision, had carried placards in support of Lowell in front of the theater until they were dispearsed by university officials. Andrew Campbell, president of the society, said that "Blunden simply is not read by undergraduates today whereas Lowell is the modern poet for them...